 Toaster Mantis wrote:
I actually don't know if classic rock radio exists here in Denmark. For the most part, I know it from magazines like not just Classic Rock but also Q, Mojo, Record Collector and Uncut. Which again seem to be aimed at obsessive record collectors rather than big hits.
When did that CR radio station start, Sean Trane? I have been under the impression that the format has for the most part been a North American phenomenon, and similar radio stations did not appear in Europe until much later even then most of them were in the UK.
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They started in 2004 , on the base of the previous rock station called Radio 21, which was born on the late-80's, itself started on the Radio-Cité - created in parts by Marc Moulin during his Telex days in the very early 80's. The mythology is that Radio-cité was Belgium's only (or first anyway) pirate radio, but that's a bit of myrth, methinks (I was in Canada at the time, anyway).
The formula changed slightly (not in the good direction, IMHO) twice: in 2009 and 2012
It's the third-most listened-to FM-radio in the French part of the country, and still holds whatever critics and DJ legends of Belgium left alive, including its director Marc Ysaye (drummer of Machiavel) and the recently retired (but he will go on on Radio Campus) rock purist Jacques de Pierpont.
Of course purist like me and the buddies love to loathe it or slam the way the radio is going, but compared to what happens in neighbouring countries (not really aware of what happens in GB ou Germany, though), we're all aware that Poor Little ol' Brussels/Wallonie is doing quite an exploit with this.
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The cultural evolution of "classic rock"
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